Download or read book THE SUICIDE ROOM written by Xavier Vidal and published by Xavier Vidal. This book was released on 2021-09-25 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1912. A mysterious and luxurious Casino hidden in the mountains outside Barcelona, the cradle of the European Art Nouveau explosion; a legendary secret room where gamblers who had lost everything could discreetly commit suicide; a serial killer on the loose; "Bicycle man", a young and peculiar police sub-inspector who will never give up. 2021. The ruins of an old casino are barely visible through the vegetation; a serial killer still on the loose; a journalist in search of a story that can revive his declining career; was the suicide room just an urban legend? Two people investigating the same crimes and chasing the same serial killer, but living one hundred years apart. One simple question. Could a man be forced to commit suicide to save the lives of his loved ones?
Download or read book The Suicide Room written by Judith M. Yerka and published by Publishamerica Incorporated. This book was released on 2007-12 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joyce dreamed shead be married atill death do you part.a Her husband had other plans, leaving her for a new love. Feeling utterly devastated, alone and too old for any future happiness, Joyce took the easy way out: Suicide. Little did she suspect that the peace she sought in eternal rest was not to be, as she joined three other souls in a place not of this world. All were present for diverse reasons, forced to learn from a heavenly guide where they went wrong in their livesa]and whether they would ever leave the pure white room. Life, Death, Heaven, Hella]and someplace in between. Welcome to The Suicide Room.
Download or read book The Suicide Room written by Stuart Z. Perkoff and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Room written by Emma Donoghue and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-07 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kidnapped as a teenage girl, Ma has been locked inside a purpose built room in her captor's garden for seven years. Her five year old son, Jack, has no concept of the world outside and happily exists inside Room with the help of Ma's games and his vivid imagination where objects like Rug, Lamp and TV are his only friends. But for Ma the time has come to escape and face their biggest challenge to date: the world outside Room.
Download or read book Suicide Room written by J. E. Kitchell and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-03-05 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2040 a veteran of yet another overseas military action toiling in a soul-destroying job commits a deadly mistake that propels him down an ever-increasing spiral of bad choices until he is forced to confront his ultimate decision.
Download or read book The Suicide Room written by Xavier Vidal i Alemany and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 1912 Art Nouveau Barcelona, a young bellboy accompanies a distinguished gentleman to what appears to be an underground hotel room and leaves him alone. The gentleman sits at a desk, and after writing a goodbye letter, he takes a gun from a desk drawer and commits suicide.The lives of two men follow parallel lines. One is a peculiar police subinspector living in 1912; the other is a journalist and art critic living in the present time. Both are investigating the same crimes, following the same clues and chasing and being hunted by the same serial killer, but they live 100 years apart, in different time periods. Both will soon discover whether the mythical Suicide Room (the place where those who had lost everything at the Casino gambling tables were supposedly offered the discrete means to commit suicide) was real or just an urban legend, butt may cost them their lives"--Author's website.
Download or read book Ty s BIG BOOK of Rubbish an Omnibus paperback written by Ty Rosenow and published by . This book was released on 2010-03 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who can read super long stories when you are in a hurry? Nobody can! Award-winning author Ty Rosenow puts everything you wanted to know in this book of short stories. These short stories were compiled from his best selling books, "Ty's Book of Rubbish: Volume 20," "Ty's Book of Rubbish: Volume 19," and "Ty Roseynose: A Documentary" among other books! Previously unpublished "Extras" are also included in the book! The stories suits everyone's idea of literary desire: humor, serious, historical, and more!
Download or read book The Historical Adventures of Thomas Balfour written by Ty Rosenow and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Balfour is a University of St. Andrews student in Scotland who is a history major. All he needs to do is to go to a library, open up a book based off of a historical event and goes back in time. Unfortunately, there is something strange about this time travel. Will Thomas Balfour and his friends be able to defeat the strange people and fix the events? The Historical Adventures of Thomas Balfour will take you on a journey through time in this page turning book with the combination of history, fantasy, romance, science fiction, and action!
Download or read book Towering Pines Volume One Room 509 written by Bruce Sarte and published by Bucks County Publishing. This book was released on 2010-06-18 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When star basketball player Liam Rider is sentenced to military school to serve out an aggravated assault charge, he thought his life was over. When he meets Lisbeth Harrington, she sparks feelings in him he didn't know he had. Pulled into the past of the historic school by nightmares of his own suicide, Liam and Lisbeth are spurned forward into the hidden history a murder, suicide and ghosts.
Download or read book Movies and Mental Illness written by Danny Wedding and published by Hogrefe Publishing GmbH. This book was released on 2023-11-06 with total page 956 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The popular, critically acclaimed text on psychopathology in movies – now including the latest movies and more Explores films according to the diagnostic criteria of DSM-5 and ICD-11 Provides psychological ratings of nearly 1,500 films Includes downloadable teaching materials Films can be a powerful aid to learning about mental illness and psychopathology – for practitioners and students in fields as diverse as psychology, psychiatry, social work, medicine, nursing, counseling, literature, or media studies, and for anyone interested in mental health. Watching films relevant to mental health can actually help you become a more productive therapist and a more astute diagnostician. Movies and Mental Illness, written by an eminent clinical psychologist (who is also a movie aficionado), has established a reputation as a uniquely enjoyable and highly memorable text for learning about psychopathology. This new edition has been completely revised to explore current issues, such as children's screentime and celebrities with mental illness, and to include the numerous films that have been released since the last edition. The core clinical chapters raise provocative questions about differential diagnosis (according to the DSM-5 and ICD-11) for the primary characters portrayed in the films. Included are also a full index of films; sample course syllabus; ratings of close to 1,500 films; fascinating appendices, such as "Top 50 Heroes and Villains," psychotherapists in movies, and misconceptions about mental illness in movies. Accompanying the new edition are downloadable resources for teachers that include critical questions and topics for discussion, as well as fabricated case histories based on movie characters with Mini-Mental State Examinations that help explain, teach, and encourage discussion about important mental health disorders. In addition, the author plans a regular series of online "Spotlights" articles that will critically examine the psychological content of new movies as they are released.
Download or read book Suicide in the Entertainment Industry written by David K. Frasier and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-09-11 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work covers 840 intentional suicide cases initially reported in Daily Variety (the entertainment industry's trade journal), but also drawing attention from mainstream news media. These cases are taken from the ranks of vaudeville, film, theatre, dance, music, literature (writers with direct connections to film), and other allied fields in the entertainment industry from 1905 through 2000. Accidentally self-inflicted deaths are omitted, except for a few controversial cases. It includes the suicides of well-known personalities such as actress Peg Entwistle, who is the only person to ever commit suicide by jumping from the top of the Hollywood Sign, Marilyn Monroe and Dorothy Dandridge, who are believed to have overdosed on drugs, and Richard Farnsworth and Brian Keith, who shot themselves to end the misery of terminal cancer. Also mentioned, but in less detail, are the suicides of unknown and lesser-known members of the entertainment industry. Arranged alphabetically, each entry covers the person's personal and professional background, method of suicide, and, in some instances, includes actual statements taken from the suicide note.
Download or read book Liberty written by Andrea Portes and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling author of Anatomy of Misfit and The Fall of Butterflies, Andrea Portes, is back with another irresistible snarky heroine in Liberty. What is a hero? Paige Nolan knows. Edward Raynes, the young man who exposed America’s unconstitutional spying techniques, is a hero, even if half the dum-dums in the country think he’s a traitor. Or Paige's parents, journalists who were captured by terrorists while telling stories of the endangered and oppressed. They were heroes, too. Were. . . or are—no one has ever told Paige if they’re still alive, or dead. Not heroes? Anyone in the government who abandoned her parents, letting them rot somewhere halfway across the world. And certainly not Paige herself, who despite her fluency in five languages and mastery of several obscure martial arts (thanks, Mom!) could do nothing to save them. Couldn’t, that is, until she’s approached by Madden Carter, an undercover operative who gives her a mission—fly to Russia, find Raynes, and discover what other government secrets he’s stockpiled. In exchange, he’ll reopen the case on her missing parents. She’s given a code name and a cover as a foreign exchange student. Who is a hero? Not Paige Nolan, but maybe, just maybe, Liberty is.
Download or read book Death as Entertainment written by Gareth R. Schott and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-06-06 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the moral and representational issues associated with engaging young people with popular media depictions of death and dying. Emotionally charged depictions of death play an important role in contemporary media directed toward teen and young adult audiences. Across creative works as diverse as interactive digital games, graphic novels, short form serial narratives, television and films, young people gain opportunities to engage with representations of death. In some cases, representations of death, dying, and the decision to end one’s own life have been subject to public outcry and criticism related to its perceived potential impact on impressionable audiences. Death in/as entertainment can also be fleeting, commonplace and used for humour making it trivial. The chapters in this volume particularly consider the types of engagement made possible through different contemporary creative mediums and the ways in which they might distinctively capture or arouse thoughts and feelings on the end and loss of a human life. Death as Entertainment will appeal to researchers and students interested in new media and its cultural and psychological impact. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Mortality.
Download or read book Painting the Town written by Krystal Black and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2020-11-06 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I've ignited a fire . . . burning our existence.” —“Ashes” “When I am in a neon pink mood, I feel the child in me come back to life.” —“Painting the Town” “I sing. I dance. I am artistic, passionately.” —“Lunar Lunacy” “We all come home to the embrace of death.” —“Cemeteries” “She was designed to be the most perfect
Download or read book Cyberbullies Cyberactivists Cyberpredators written by Lauren Rosewarne and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-01-25 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by an expert in media, popular culture, gender, and sexuality, this book surveys the common archetypes of Internet users—from geeks, nerds, and gamers to hackers, scammers, and predators—and assesses what these stereotypes reveal about our culture's attitudes regarding gender, technology, intimacy, and identity. The Internet has enabled an exponentially larger number of people—individuals who are members of numerous and vastly different subgroups—to be exposed to one other. As a result, instead of the simple "jocks versus geeks" paradigm of previous eras, our society now has more detailed stereotypes of the undesirable, the under-the-radar, and the ostracized: cyberpervs, neckbeards, goths, tech nerds, and anyone with a non-heterosexual identity. Each chapter of this book explores a different stereotype of the Internet user, with key themes—such as gender, technophobia, and sexuality—explored with regard to that specific characterization of online users. Author Lauren Rosewarne, PhD, supplies a highly interdisciplinary perspective that draws on research and theories from a range of fields—psychology, sociology, and communications studies as well as feminist theory, film theory, political science, and philosophy—to analyze what these stereotypes mean in the context of broader social and cultural issues. From cyberbullies to chronically masturbating porn addicts to desperate online-daters, readers will see the paradox in popular culture's message: that while Internet use is universal, actual Internet users are somehow subpar—less desirable, less cool, less friendly—than everybody else.
Download or read book Figuring Shit Out written by Amy Biancolli and published by Behler Publications, LLC. This book was released on 2014-09-29 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Your life isn't over." My dad says this. "I mean, YOUR life isn't over. Beyond the kids. You'll go on living, doing things. This isn't it." I know, I assure him. I have the kids. They need me. They're my life now. "OK," he replies, then grunts—more of a brief hum. He only hums when he thinks I'm full of shit. Shockingly single. Amy Biancolli's life went off script more dramatically than most after her husband of twenty years jumped off the roof of a parking garage. Left with three children, a three-story house, and a pile of knotty psychological complications, Amy realizes the flooding dishwasher, dead car battery, rapidly growing lawn, basement sump pump, and broken doorknob aren't going to fix themselves. She also realizes that "figuring shit out" means accepting the horrors that came her way, rolling with them, slogging through them, helping others through theirs, and working her way through life with love and laughter. Amy Biancolli is an author and journalist whose column appears in the Albany Times Union. Before that, Amy served as film critic for the Houston Chronicle where her reviews, published around the country, won her the 2007 Comment and Criticism Award from the Texas Associated Press Managing Editors Association. Biancolli is the author of House of Holy Fools: A Family Portrait in Six Cracked Parts, which earned her Albany Author of the Year. Amy lives in Albany, New York, with her three children.
Download or read book Caught In Between written by Petho Agnes Petho and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-02 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays explores intermediality as a new perspective in the interpretation of the cinemas that have emerged after the collapse of the former Eastern bloc. As an aesthetic based on a productive interaction of media and highlighting cinema's relationship with the other arts, intermediality always implies a state of in-betweenness which is capable of registering tensions and ambivalences that go beyond the realm of media. The comparative analyses of films from Hungary, Romania, Poland, the Czech Republic, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Russia demonstrate that intermediality can be employed in this way as a form of introspection dealing with complex issues of art and society. Appearing in a variety of sensuous or intellectual modes, intermediality can become an effective poetic strategy to communicate how the cultures of the region are caught in-between East and West, past and present, emotional turmoil and more detached self-awareness. The diverse theoretical approaches that unravel this in-betweenness contribute to the understanding of intermedial phenomena in contemporary cinema as a whole.
